The Alice Salomon Archive is launching the project "Between care, emancipation and body politics". The project examines colonial racist and eugenic thinking in the bourgeois women's movement and emerging social work from the end of the 19th century to the 1960s. The focus is on the digitization and indexing of central writings by Alice Salomon as well as other historical sources, which will be made accessible online in the future and used for research, teaching and the public.
The digitized holdings will also form the basis for an archival pedagogy course in the Master's degree program Praxisforschung in Sozialer Arbeit und Pädagogik at ASH Berlin, in which students will critically examine colonial continuities within feminist and social work knowledge. In addition, the students' experiences in the archive will be systematically evaluated in order to develop recommendations for archives that are critical of discrimination and to publish them as freely accessible guidelines.
The project is funded by the German Digital Women's Archive and carried out by the project team Fallon Tiffany Cabral, Dayana Lau, Friederike Mehl and Anouk Widder. Cooperation partner is the queerfeminist archive LIESELLE at the Ruhr University Bochum with Prof. Dr. Tahani Nadim and Katja Teichmann.
